Was PIR Sales hit by ransomware?

PIR Sales was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the thegentlemen ransomware group?

thegentlemen is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the PIR Sales breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to PIR Sales. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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PIR Sales

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 9, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Oct 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

PIR Sales, Inc. is a private manufacturers' representative firm founded in 1992 in Chandler, Arizona. It represents 40+ premium brands in plumbing, irrigation, waterworks, fire/life safety, and HVAC markets across Arizona, Southern Nevada, New Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, with approximately 17–19 employees and estimated annual revenue of $20–23M.

Industry: Manufacturers' Representative / Plumbing, Irrigation & HVAC Distribution
Address: 3050 N. San Marcos Pl, Chandler, AZ 85225
Employees: 17-19
Founded: 1992

Attack summary

Severity: low — Victim listing only, with no stated data exposure, no proof files advertised, and no description of attack method or data at risk.

The leak post lists PIR Sales as a victim of thegentlemen but contains no description of attack method (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or what data is claimed to have been compromised.

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What the group claims

pirsales.com zoominfo.com/c/pir-sales-inc/84001098 PIR Sales, Inc. is a private, independent manufacturers' representative firm founded in 1992 in Chandler, Arizona, serving plumbing, irrigation, waterworks, fire/life safety, and HVAC markets across Arizona, Southern Nevada, New Mexico, and El Paso TX. It generates estimated annual revenue of $20–23M with only ~17–19 employees (9 outside + 8 inside sales) — an exceptional ~$1.2–1.35M revenue per employee. The firm represents 40+ premium brands including A.O. Smith, Watts Water Technologies, Bradley Corp., Panasonic HVAC, Stiebel Eltron, and Highland Tank, backed by 25+ year manufacturer relationships and a 27,000 sq ft warehouse offering 24/7 commercial water heater pickup. It serves 20 distribution channels (architects, engineers, contractors, municipalities, utilities) and employs dedicated Specification Consultants for architects in both Arizona and Las Vegas. Led by President Bob Saylor (29 years at PIR) and VP Craig Addington

Sources

Victim sitepirsales.com

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About thegentlemen

thegentlemen is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their broad targeting of commercial sectors. The group has documented 267 victims across multiple countries, with primary focus on the United States, Thailand, France, Brazil, and India. Their targeting strategy demonstrates a preference for high-value sectors including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and financial services organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ ransomware-as-a-service models remain unclear. The relatively high victim count of 267 in a short operational timeframe since September 2025 suggests either an aggressive campaign pace or potential inflation of victim numbers through affiliate operations, though without corroborating intelligence reports, the group's exact operational capabilities and notable campaigns cannot be definitively established. Current intelligence indicates the group remains active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat profiling requires additional validated reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 960 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post October 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

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Timeline of this disclosure

October 9, 2026PIR Sales listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 960 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, PIR Sales is reported in United States, a country with 3,176 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means PIR Sales appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on thegentlemen's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.